Primal birthday cake!

I decided to bake my son a cake for his birthday today. (Note that before going primal, the most I ever did in the kitchen was heat up leftovers.) I followed this recipe and also made a variation of this frosting (I didn't have dark chocolate chips, so I used the organic semisweet non-dairy/non-soy/GF chocolate chips I had in my pantry, and I swapped the grapeseed oil for coconut oil).

The verdict? YUM. All of us enjoyed it (with a big ol' glass of milk -- love being primal!). While this is hardly health food, it's worlds healthier than anything I could have bought at the store, which is what I've done for previous birthdays.

Elana has a whole bunch of different frostings, but the chocolate is the only one I've made so far. Well, I also baked this coconut cake with frosting yesterday -- and meh, not so good. I don't know if it's because I accidentally used dehydrated shredded coconut (40% reduced fat, ugh -- obviously, I didn't read the label when I bought the package) or if the cake just wasn't to my family's taste, but meh. Also: paleo/primal cakes don't seem to lift/get fluffy, do they? The vanilla cake today was very good, but it's pretty darn flat. I'd been hoping there'd be some rise to it. Alas.

ETA: re: family wrinkling noses
My mom is sneering and wrinkling her nose about me making my own frosting. "Why don't you just buy some? A can of pilsbury is only a dollar". I asked her if she had looked at the ingredient list for their buttercream frosting lately. Basic buttercream = butter, cream, sugar. Nowhere on the pilsbury list is any of those ingredients. Ew.
I'll make my own, tyvm. It will taste just as good and be better for Grace.